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Weekly special: a trip to Vegas

Mary Alice and Richard are off to Las Vegas tomorrow for a littel R&R with the grandkids and their parents so we thought a book with a Vegas setting would make the perfect Weekly Special. Save 20% with this comic caper novel and get free shipping besides on This Week's Special.

Our Weekly Special for Kids: the perfect book for people who love books

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August-September News available for download

Thanks to the efforts of our battalion of volunteer proofreaders, the Comma-Kaze Squad, a vastly improved version of the August-September edition of the MLB News is now available for download in PDF form. This issue should be going in the mail as we speak but you can get hold of it right now online.

Dennis Palumbo August 21

Our event with Dennis Palumbo to launch the first in his Pittsburgh-set mystery series has been changed to a talk and signing, no charge. We had originally announced this as a Coffee & Crime Breakfast but overwhelming response has forced us to change this to a simple talk and signing.

If you've already paid for tickets we'll take care of you--just give us a call at the store to discuss: 412-828-4877.

MLB Best Sellers for July

We've got a first in our MLB Best Sellers for July. For the first time there's a tie for number 1 hardcover best seller. Fittingly, it's a tie between Lisa Gardner's Live to Tell and Tess Gerritsen's Ice Cold. These two authors shared our Chiller Thriller evening which drew a record crowd for book talk and popsicles.

You'll find the complete list in hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback in the MLB Best Sellers for July.

A special offer from Marcus Sakey

Author Marcus Sakey, who visited MLB last year with The Amateurs, has a special offer for readers of our email newsletter--a free short story.

The story is available in ebook form through Smashwords. Just go to this link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/19303 buy the story and use this coupon code: YB98Q

A violin recital at a bookstore? Why not.

On Tuesday, August 31 at 7 pm we'll have a unique event at MLB, an author talk, signing and violin recital with Gerald Elias. Mr. Elias is the assistant concertmaster at the Utah Symphony Orchestra and he's visiting us with the second of his mysteries featuring violinist Daniel Jacobus. Danse Macabre is the title and Danse Macabre is the musical selection when Mr. Elias appears at the store. The first of his mysteries, Devil's Trill, is here in paperback.

Please call 412-828-4877 or use our Contact Form to let us know if you're coming.

Friday the 13th sale a big success

We had a very nice response on our Friday the 13th sale with over 30 web orders plus several more via phone. That's about twice the regular rate for orders over the weekend and it resulted in some very nice sales which will help us reach our sales goal for August.

It occurred to me that just a dozen extra orders every weekend would really make a huge difference in our sales. If you're reading the email and you send us an order every few weeks or every month or so then I'm not addressing this to you. If, on the other hand, you haven't ordered anything in six months or a year--we could really use your business.

New Arrivals

A pile of new British titles (again) this week. Actually, that was a bit of a shambles last week. Turned out that all those British books hadn't actually arrived. However, they have arrived now (promise) and you can order them.

Catriona McPherson's Golden Age sleuth Dandy Gilver it as it again in two new books: Winter Ground and Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains.

More Golden Age sleuthing in And Then There Was No One, the third of Gilbert Adairs mysteries with writer Evadne Mount.

L.C. Tyler, author of The Herring-Sellers Apprentice has a most unusual standalone A Very Persistent Illusion.

Dark Water is the third in an ensemble series by Caro Ramsay set int he Partickhill Police Station in Glagow.

US books were not without some interesting New Arrivals this week Here are some highlights:

Gerald Elias's Danse Macabre is here in plenty of time for his Aug. 31 event.

Signed copies of Laura Lippman's spectacular new standalone novel, I'd Know You Anywhere, are here.

James Church has a new mystery set in the secretive world of North Korea in The Man With the Baltic Stare.

The man who wrote the book that was the basis for Slumdog Millionaire, Vikas Swarup, has a new tale of crime and punishment in modern India with Six Suspects.

A Duty to the Dead is the first in a new series by Charles Todd and features a WW I-era nurse, Bess Crawford.

Some years ago Chuck Hogan wrote a marvelous crime novel called Prince of Thieves about a blue collar guy from the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. Thing is, he's a bank robber. The book is now the basis for a Ben Affleck movie called The Town and as a result the book, with that title, has been reissued.

New books arrive every day. Check our New Arrivals page often for everything new at MLB.

Signed first editions

What's on the website now

Here's what you can find at www.mysterylovers.com:

Come meet us on Facebook

Come visit us at facebook.com/mysterylovers where you can join the 811 folks who are already our fans. Steve Bucci has just posted photographs from the Michael Koryta coffee & crime event. You also find news about our upcoming visit from Sara Paretsky as well as comments by other readers.

Upcoming Events

August 21 - Dennis Palumbo talk & signing
August 31 - Gerald Elias signing and violin recital

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Richard, Mary Alice and the MLB Staff

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